Summer Term 2026

Schedule:

03.03.26 – Bonnie Fraser (Univ. of Exeter, UK)
Population genomics reveals rapid repeatable adaptation in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata).
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10.03.26 – François Rousset (Univ. of Lyon, FR)
What phage-bacteria interactions teach us about innate immunity.
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17.03.26 – Martin Jastroch (Univ. of Stockholm, SW)
Reconstructing the evolution of vertebrate thermogenesis using comparative approaches.

24.03.26 – Ulrich Technau (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Evolution of bilaterian traits and mechanisms of cell type diversification: insights from cnidarians.
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31.03.26 – Henrique Teotónio (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, FR)
When, how and why selection for recombination is decoupled from adaptation.
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07.04.26 – Claire Mérot (Univ. of Rennes, FR)
The role of structural genomic variants in the evolution of biodiversity.
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14.04.26 – Rebekah Rogers (UNC Charlotte, US)
The limits of genetic novelty in rapid adaptive change.

21.04.26 – Nicolas Bierne (Univ. of Montpellier, FR)
Two tales of anthropogenic hybridization in human-altered marine habitats.
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28.04.26 - Thomas Hummel (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Genetic architecture of drosophila brain asymmetry.

05.05.26 – Alison Wright (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
The genomics and development of sexually selected traits.
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12.05.26 – Carlotta Martelli (Univ. of Mainz, DE)
The effect of temperature on brain wiring: from mechanisms to functional implications.

19.05.26 – Emily Josephs (Univ. of Michigan, US)
Integrating evolution and genomics to understand plant phenotypic plasticity.
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02.06.26 – Bertrand Servin (Univ. of Toulouse, FR)
Combining quantitative and population genetics inferences to predict phenotypes in populations under polygenic adaptation.
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09.06.26 – Juliette de Meaux (Univ. of Cologne, DE)
Plant adaptation to environmental challenges: the endangered Arabis grassland species.
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker

16.06.26 – Angela Hancock (Purdue Univ., US)
Molecular basis of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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23.06.26 – Andrea Betancourt (Univ. of Liverpool, UK)
The impact of P-element-induced hybrid dysgenesis on the male germ-line in Drosophila simulans.
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